| Show OPENS AT aan PRESIDENT WILSON TOUCHES TOU CHES BUTTON WHICH OPENS PANAMA PACIFIC international FAIR exposition first day attendance record ord broken in spite of bad weather secretary lane ad dresses vast throng san francisco all records for exposition first day attendance were broken on february 20 at the opening of the panama pacific international exposition thice hundred abou thousand people passed through the turn turu stiles the previous record was as at the opening day of the st bouls louis morl worlds ds fair in laua the crowd was a spectacle in itself it filled the grand stands it packed the great courts and concourses it poured through the aisles it overflowed from the sides sidewalks alks into the avenues from the hills to the ba bay Y as far as the eye could reach in end ing rivers of bobbing heads the day broke threatening and rainy but by sunset lberg was as scarcely a cloud in the sky one shower fell during the dedicatory exercises A As president wilson opened the exposition N with ith the touch of a button la in the white house the suns long slant ing rays glinted in a miniature rainbow through the spurting streams of the fountain of energy that moment unleashed flags of all the nations rose on manifold poles and pinnacles signal bombs were ere detonated from tow tov ers the dedicatory ceremonies vere ere made as simple and short as possible the citizens headed by Goer governor nor hiram W johnson and mayor james rolph jr representing the state and the city were ere welcomed elc omed to the grounds by the officers and directors of the exposition and officers of the federal government addresses Addres bes mere delivered by president C C 3 moore of the exposition dr frederick J V skiff director in chief governor johnson secretary lane and a few others invocations and benedictions ere were pronounced by clergymen representing the roman catholic protestant and jewish faiths |
